Rising road [[electronic resource] ] : a true tale of love, race, and religion in America / / Sharon Davies

• Autore: Davies Sharon L. <1960->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.84; 306.84/60976178109042; 306.846; 306.8460976; 306.8460976178109042
• Soggetto topico: Interracial marriage - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century; Anti-Catholicism - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century; Murder - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Prologue; ONE: Resistance; TWO: A Parish to Run; THREE: Until Death Do Us Part; FOUR: A City Reacts; FIVE: A Killer Speaks; SIX: The Building of a Defense; SEVEN: The Engines of Justice Turn; EIGHT: Black Robes, White Robes; NINE: Trials and Tribulations; TEN: Shadow Boxing; ELEVEN: A Jury's Verdict; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth--who had secretly converted to Catholicism three months earlier--to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic. Having all but disappeared from historical memory, the murder of Father Coyle and the trial of Rev. Stephenson that followed are vi
• Titolo autorizzato: Rising road
• ISBN: 0-19-975249-4; 1-282-46582-1; 9786612465826; 0-19-970190-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780708003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II